Number 5, 2005

Special Theme of the Issue

Common Law Today

(guest editor: N.l. Novikova)

In Place of an Introduction

Common Law of the Peoples of the North: Opportunities and Limitations of the State Law System

N. I. Novikova

Comments: G. Fondahl, T. Thuen, T. Svensson, P.N. Pavlov, M.V. Puchkova, l A. Shirmanov, L.G. Svechnikova, A.A. Dorskaia, F.G. Kamkia, O.I. Brusina, I.L. Chestnov

Ethnos, Society, and State

Ways of Harmonizing Tradition and Law (Toward Studying the Issue in the Case of Tajikistan

K. Ziioev

Where Do We Come From? On Spatial-Geographical Identity of People in France

F. Guérin-Pace

An Interview with France Guerin-Pace and Isabelle Ville

E. I. Filippova

On a Term Signifying the Dispersal Area of Basque Language and Culture

P. N. Ignatiev

Pagan Sanctuaries in the Merovingian Kingdom

V. N. Driakhlov

Ethnos and Culture

The Nature and Qualities of Mythic Characters in Circassians’ Epic and Everyday Culture

K. A. Khabekirova

History of the Discipline

The Remarkable Scholar of Northern Peoples (Toward the 150th Anniversary of V.I. Jochelson)

S. B. Slobodin

Museums

30 Years of the Omsk State University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography

N. A. Tomilov,  G. M. Patrusheva

Book Reviews

Review of Kul’turnaia antropologiia (Cultural Anthropology), by S.A. Arutiunov, S.I. Ryzhakova. Moscow, 2004

E. G. Alexandrenkov

Review of Nemetskaia etnologiia (German Ethnology), by G.E. Markov. Moscow, 2004

A. A. Nikishenkov

Review of Mifologiia mordvy: etnograficheskii spravochnik (Mythologies of the Mordva: Ethnographic Guide). Saransk, 2004

P. I. Puchkov

Review of Drevneishie kul’tury Severnoi Ameriki (The Oldest Cultures of North America), by S.A. Vasiliev. St. Petersburg, 2004

Yu. E. Berezkin

Review of Etnografiia i antropologiia Yamala. Chast’ 2: Antropologiia (Ethnography and Anthropology of Yamal. Part 2: Anthropology). Novosibirsk, 2003

I. V. Perevozchikov

Review of Sovremennoe polozhenie i perspektivy razvitiia malochislennykh narodov Severa, Sibiri i Dal’nego Vostoka: Nezavisimyi ekspertnyi doklad (The Current Condition and Development Prospects of Small-Numbered Peoples of the North, Siberia, and the Far East: Independent Expert Report). Moscow, 2004

L. R. Pavlinskaia

Review of Bania v sisteme zhizneobespecheniia narodov Povolzhia i Priuralia: istoriko-etnograficheskoe issledovanie (Bath in the Livelihood System of the Peoples of Povolzhie and Priuralie: Historical-Ethnographic Study), by L.I. Nikonova, I.A. Kandrina. Saransk, 2003

M. Y. Martynova

Review of Izgoii: Rossiiskie bezhentsy v Finliandii (1917-1939) (Castaways: Russian Refugees in Finland, 1917-1939), by P. Nevalainen. St. Petersburg, 2003

N. V. Shlygina

On the Journal's Site

In Memoriam

Yurii Konstantinovich Poplinskii